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Opioid analgesics reduce use of antipsychotics in persons with Alzheimer's disease.»
Not exact matches
The group would monitor the extent and complications of
opioid addiction; spread awareness of symptoms and aftereffects through seminars and workshops; monitor and assess the state of and improvements in treatment modalities; interface with manufacturers, retailers, and physicians offering products to treat pain; pressure the medical community to
reduce availability of addictive
analgesics and advocate for nonaddictive substitutes, and maintain an interface between treatment programs and similar programs targeted at youth, health care, aging, and housing.
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Opioids have both
analgesic and rewarding effects and they have these effects through mu
opioid receptors and these receptors are expressed in pain terminals in the spinal cord and in areas of the brain that regulate pain but are also expressed in areas that regulate reward and a sense of pleasure,» Boyle said, referring to cells found in a person's central nervous system that bind to naturally occurring
opioid compounds and
reduce pain and make people feel much better.
Due to the central nervous system origins of fibromyalgia pain, Clauw said treatments with
opioids or other narcotic
analgesics usually are not effective because they do not
reduce the activity of neurotransmitters in the brain.
Structure - based drug discovery of
opioid analgesics with
reduced side effects.